POPULAR PROGRESSIVE - REDUX

What do you get when you mix
a Populist with a Progressive?

POPULAR PROGRESSIVE - REDUX

What do you get when you mix
a Populist with a Progressive?

Thursday, September 20

The Case for the "Protest" Vote

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Many people choose to sit out elections. They don't like the choices, they don't know the issues, therefore, they don't take th...
Wednesday, September 19

Parallels: Mollie, Sadie, Celia, and Christine

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In Iowa, three women have tragically lost their lives to men who assaulted them. Mollie Tibbitts and Celia Barquin Arosamena were alledgedl...
Tuesday, September 11

Another 9/11

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As I write this, it is about the same time that the first reports came out of New York on September 11, 2001 that the first of two planes...
Wednesday, September 5

Iowa City Special Election: The Morning After

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I have been involved on various levels with politics for much of my adult life and I have to say, the aftermath of yesterday's special ...
Friday, August 31

5 Reasons Why Iowa City Council Special Election Primary Is Just That (and You Should Vote) - Part 2

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In the last installment, I provided background information on all of the candidates. In this posting, I want to provide some analysis and a...
Thursday, August 30

5 Reasons Why Iowa City Council Special Election Primary Is Just That (and You Should Vote)

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On Tuesday, September 4th, voters in Iowa City will be making a difficult choice about which two of five candidates that they will send for...
Thursday, August 23

Resurgency of Urgency in Progressive Politics

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With the election of Barrack Obama in 2008, Democrats and other progressives were self-satisfied that the times they were a changin'. M...
Wednesday, August 22

Politicizing Tragedy:How Cristhian Rivera Became Willie Horton Overnight

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Personal Note: The death of Mollie Tibbetts is without question tragic. She was a student at the institution in which I work. As a communit...
Tuesday, August 21

A Personal Note to the Iowa Democratic Party

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Dear Iowa Democratic Party Candidates, How are you? You may or may not have noticed that the Republicans in our state are making a solid ca...
Friday, July 27

The Privilege to Vote: Why Democracy Is in Trouble

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Philosophically and legally, all law abiding citizens have the right to vote.In practice though, it is a privilege to be a voter. The right...
Monday, July 23

Potentially More Devastating than Citizen's United

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The House last week just approved a bill that any progressive or supporter of separation of church and state should be contacting your Sena...
Thursday, July 19

Turning Polarity in Progress: How Progressives Can Win

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Having a divide along political lines is far from a new phenomenon. What we must never forget is that issues can unite us where politics di...
Wednesday, July 18

Trump Trumps Trump

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Unless you were in a coma or other catatonic state, you are aware that our President threw his national intelligence agencies under the bus...
Tuesday, July 10

Trump Nominates Originalist Judge

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For years conservatives have framed progressive or liberal judges as "activist judges" and suggesting that they use their politi...
Monday, July 9

Trump Putting Hardworking Americans He Hired Out of Work

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No one said being POTUS would be easy, but by his 365th day as president, 34% of Donald Trump’s "A" Team staff quit, changed ro...
Friday, July 6

What Would the Founding Fathers Say?

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The United States has an interesting core values dilemma. We are a nation founded both on religious freedom and tolerance and yet we have l...
Monday, July 2

Feel The Sun Burn

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With thanks to the word warriors at the Merriam -Webster dictionary, I now know that we have entered into the canicular time of the yea...
Wednesday, June 27

Coming Distractions-- Who Gets To Name The Next Supreme Court Justice?

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To say that Judge Anthony Kennedy's resignation is a blow to the future of progressivism in the US for the next 20 years is to put it m...
Monday, June 25

Improvable Objects: Politics Not Sensitive to Concerns and Circumstance of People

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Many years ago when I started this Blog, I thought about what to call it. At the time, I remember thinking about Paul Wellstone as he descr...
Friday, June 22

Lost Wages and Lost Perspective

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On July 1, 2018, Johnson County would have enacted a $14.00 minimum wage. But, due to legislation passed in 2017, counties no longer have t...
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